weave - translate WEB to TeX
weave [
-x]
webfile[
.web] [ {
changefile[
.ch] |-} [
outfile[
.tex]
] ]
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for
this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX
implementation.
The
weave program is used to create a TeX file for viewing a Web program.
It takes appropriate care of typographic details like page layout and the use
of indentation, italics, boldface, etc., and it supplies extensive cross-index
information that it gathers automatically. The command line arguments are the
same as for
tangle except for the option:
-x says to omit the
index, module name list, and table of contents pages. (A
CONTENTS.tex
file will still be written when the TeX file is processed, however, unless
some macros in
webmac.tex are redefined.)
The output TeX file name is formed by adding
.tex to the root of the Web
file name or from the third argument. In this case you can specify '-' as an
empty change file.
There are several macros that probably should be redefined by the programmer at
the beginning of the Web file. It is a good idea to set \title to the name of
the program. And, to cause output of only changed modules, one can say
\let\maybe=\iffalse (usually as the first change in the change file).
The environment variable WEBINPUTS is used to search for the input files, or the
system default if WEBINPUTS is not set. See
tex(1) for the details of
the searching.
- $TEXMFMAIN/tex/plain/knuth-lib/webmac.tex
- TeX macros used by weave output.
tangle(1) for references, authors, and other information.